Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times Using Correlated Quantitative Characters
S. Alvarez-Carretero, A. Goswami, Z. Yang, M. dos Reis
This paper introduces a Bayesian method to estimate species divergence times using quantitative morphological characters and shows that ignoring population variation and character correlation leads to biased estimates.
DOI 10.1093/sysbio/syz015